Artists » Fired Works

Triny Cline

Artists, Blog Comments Off

Mar 222012

Triny Cline grew up with pottery, her parents being avid collectors of DX Gordy and other local potters. She was an adjunct art instructor on the college level for eight years, where she taught, among other art classes, the ceramics courses.

Appropriate for daily use, her stoneware pottery is wheel thrown, with hand pulled and extruded additions. The glazes are non-toxic and lead free. Triny formulates her own glazes and uses multiple and overlapping glaze applications of blue, brown, and green to suggest a surreal landscape. Pieces are fired in an electric kiln to cone 7.

Lori Buff

Artists Comments Off

Mar 222012

Lori Buff fell in love with pottery when she was a junior in high school. This love of creating clay forms led her to decide that she was going to be a potter when she grew up. She was accepted at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University based on her portfolio work.

After leaving school, Buff traveled around the country in a 1971 Pinto with extended stays in New York, Virginia, Wisconsin and Birmingham. She eventually settled in Atlanta, GA where she tried for 27 years to live the life expected of her, working corporate jobs and such.

Buff has finally returned to the wheel and to the career that has been calling to her to get “back down to Earth.” She now throws at her studio in East Atlanta Village. Her award-winning works have been shown in juried shows in the New York and Atlanta Metro areas including the Inman Park Festival and the Telephone Factory Lofts Art Show.

Jeff Knighton

Blog, Featured Artists Comments Off

Dec 202011

Jeff Knighton started making pots in 1992. Before that, his artwork had always been two dimensional – using pencils, pen and ink, and various printmaking techniques. He was only a few classes away from finishing a BFA in printmaking and was required to take a 3-D course. His sister recommended ceramics. After making his first pinch-pot, he was hooked – actually obsessed. Knighton couldn’t stop thinking about making pots. He changed his major to ceramics and never looked back.

“Today I still feel an incredible level of excitement and anticipation when I sit down with a lump of clay,” explained the artist. “My best work seems to evolve on its own. My inspiration comes from many different sources – God, family and friends, my students, music, nature, dreams, my travels in the Navy.”

Knighton continued,

Once while visiting a museum in New Orleans, a small tripod vessel caught my eye. Something about its form and surface gave it a powerful presence despite its 4-5″size. There were many larger, more ornate and colorful vessels in the exhibit, but I kept returning to study this pot which was made by an unknown Chinese artist over 2500 years ago. I returned to my studio and made a variation of it, and that variation hatched more ideas that I’m still exploring. It’s fascinating that an artist from a distant culture and time made such a strong connection with me. I hope that my work will inspire someone in a similar way.

Malena Bisanti-Wall

Artists Comments Off

Sep 132011

Malena Bisanti-Wall lives in Marietta, Georgia with her supportive husband, Michael, and two bad cats. As a child, she dreamed of being and artist and grew up dabbling in various media, but it wasn’t until she was an adult that she discovered clay. She hasn’t looked back since.

She explains, “Working with clay brings me such joy and the way it is so forgiving with unlimited possibilities is very exciting. I love exploring and creating various textures that make each piece unique.”

Bisanti-Wall is inspired by the words of others and ofter portrays those words within the context of her visually-appealing work. Her colorful and whimsical ceramics, both functional and decorative, are handmade and hand-glazed in her studio in Marietta. Each piece is truly “one-of-a-kind.”

Jeff Bishoff

Artists, Featured Artists Comments Off

Sep 122011

Jeff Bishoff is a working artist living in Watkinsville, Georgia.

Shelia Bradley

Artists Comments Off

Sep 122011

Sheila Bradley has had a life-long love affair with clay. In her childhood years she would spend hours at the water’s edge of rivers in North Carolina with her hands buried in the rich dirt of the river bank. Those memories followed her into adulthood and compelled her to try her hand at pottery.

Of her first class, she said, “I remember crying and being overcome with the feeling that I had, at last, come home.”

Since 2005, she has devoted herself to exploring the many possibilities of clay, and combined that devotion with her second love, the culinary arts.

“I am completely absorbed with the opportunity to create a functional pot based on the food I would like to see in it.”

Bradley works primarily at the potter’s wheel, creating functional pieces with smooth, bright surfaces, ready to hold a delicious meal. She invites you to enjoy eery aspect of her work through the daily use of her ceramics in your home kitchen.

Lynne Burke

Artists Comments Off

Sep 112011

Lynne Burke first put her hands in clay at the age of 53 and became obsessed by the medium, which she calls “earth’s most primal element”.

Lynne’s work is primarily wheel-thrown and altered. She has difficulty leaving any pot as round as it is when it comes off the wheel, and she finds smooth surfaces to be aesthetically disturbing. Lynne uses random found and cast items to make marks on pieces, and carves many pieces “one mark at a time”. Some of her more complicated carvings can take up to two days.

A gingko leaf is seen frequently on Lynne’s work. She recalls many childhood afternoons in her grandmother’s gingko tree and was impressed by the fact that, according to her grandmother, it was the only such tree in Charlotte, NC at the time. In addition, the shape of the gingko often influences Lynne’s work with its irregular leaves and faint vein lines.

Meg Hogan Campbell

Artists Comments Off

Sep 092011

Meg Hogan Campbell grew up in Macon, Georgia. She attended the University of Georgia, Wesleyan College and Mercer University and holds bachelor’s degrees in both Art and English.

Campbell’s work often features lizards, fish or leaves hidden the the rich texture of the objects she creates. Working in her home studio for many years, she has also worked in studio space in Payne City, which is an independent city fully encircled by Macon.

Boyce Covert

Artists Comments Off

Sep 072011

Artists are prone to examine and collect natural and man-made objects. Boyce Covert is guilty of accumulating a massive number of things including vintage textiles, kitchenware, seed pods, and seashells. She loves the repetitive patterning seen in textiles and the lines, forms, textures, and shapes discovered in nature. These objects are visual research and play a large role in the creative process.

Boyce carves symbols to create clay stamps which represent in some fashion the objects that she has accumulated. Many symbols, like the spiral, circle, cross, and X, are universally known. Some of the symbols carved onto the clay surface duplicate a texture or pattern found on a vintage textile. Using paper templates, hand carved stamps, and slab construction, she combines the natural with the man-made to fabricate functional clay vessels. Boyce enjoys the creative process from flat sheets of clay to boxlike cups, bowls, and trays.

Cameron Covert

Artists Comments Off

Sep 072011

Cameron Covert feels like an observer to the work he’s created over the past 40 years; working intuitively, allowing the piece to grow and evolve, he is always interested to see what will emerge. Inspiration for Covert’s work comes from the travels he’s taken in various places within this continent, as well as two trips to Japan and a trip to China. Covert also taught ceramics and photography through study abroad programs in Italy and France, which again has subtly influenced the direction of his work.

Covert believes it should be fun to work in clay, and continues “exploring new forms and refining old ones (to) keep my work moving, changing, and constantly growing.”

Covert has participated in dozens of shows and is internationally known for his work. He retired from teaching at West Georgia in 2005 after 35 years in the classroom and continues to work in his studio in Carrollton.